{"id":3666,"date":"2003-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2003-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"the-effect-of-breed-on-the-development-of-adverse-social-behaviours-in-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/the-effect-of-breed-on-the-development-of-adverse-social-behaviours-in-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"The effect of breed on the development of adverse social behaviours in pigs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harmful social behaviour, particularly tail-biting, has been and continues to be a common problem on pig farms. While there have been many studies into external factors that may lead to the development of tail-biting, there has been very little research into the influence of the genetic makeup of the pig in the development of tail-biting. The aim of the current experiment was to investigate the effect of breeds to perform harmful social behaviour, in particular tail-biting. Observations were made on three breeds (Large White (LW), Land Race (LR) and Duroc (DR) with 100 pigs per breed. DR pigs tended to direct more total harmful social behaviour towards pen mates than the other breeds. In particular, DR were observed in more total pig-directed biting of pen mates than LR and LW. LR pigs bit the ears of pen mates less often than LW and DR. Overall, the significant breed differences in this experiment indicate some genetic contribution to expression of harmful social behaviour. This is being examined in more detail in a current long-term heritability study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmful social behaviour, particularly tail-biting, has been and continues to be a common problem on pig farms. While there have been many studies into external factors that may lead to the development of tail-biting, there has been very little research into the influence of the genetic makeup of the pig in the development of tail-biting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,10033,2349,4137,7807,23694,2559,562,3804,20792,14,33,14980,20912,20911,25008,18011],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-arc","tag-breed","tag-breed-ear-biting-harmful-social-behaviour-pig-tail-chew-test-tail-biting-social-behaviour-behaviour-pigs","tag-breeds","tag-dir","tag-duroc","tag-farms","tag-genetic","tag-influence","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-search","tag-some","tag-t","tag-the-effect-of-breed-on-the-development-of-adverse-social-behaviours-in-pigs","tag-tot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}